VShieldCheck in McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 allow local users to change permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt, as demonstrated by symlinking to the root crontab file to execute arbitrary commands. Apply patch 1 for McAfee Virex version 7.7:
https://mysupport.mcafee.com/eservice_enu/
Publication date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:19:00 +0000